For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made ...

Linux has a new Secure Boot problem. But it's not nearly as bad as some people make out. Here's what you can do to address the issue. Back in the late 2000s, computer firmware was moving from legacy ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

In this chapter we will look at the startup process that most computers go through and how the fundamental operating systems get loaded and started. You will see that computers start with tiny steps ...

Most of the time, your Linux server runs fine, maybe giving you some minor problems here and there. But one day you restart the system and find a critical error in ...

Have a bootable Linux USB recovery disk ready for system recovery, file access, and malware removal. Use it for managing partitions, troubleshooting, diagnostics, privacy, and security to maintain ...

With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, Red Hat will use the new Upstart boot service, as a replacement for the old init. In this article you'll learn about the changes to this ...

The clock is ticking for Windows and Linux users to update cryptographic keys that protect their systems against firmware-based UEFI infections, a pernicious form of malware that loads before ...